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Surprise leftover dust in a nearby tiny galaxy suggests early galaxies may have had more planet-making ingredients than we thought.

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Astronomers have spotted a massive young star in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The star is surrounded by a disk where planets may form.

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The back-of-the-envelope math is compelling. There are likely over a trillion exoplanets in our Milky Way galaxy alone. So as far as we know, the universe must teem with super-Earths — and some ...

NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope discovered a system of seven "sweltering" planets surrounding a star that's hotter than our own sun.

To simulate the universe, they used the most precise value of cosmological parameters, well-tested models of galaxy evolution, and an estimate of how and when stars forms, which carry their own ...

Giant, gas-rich planets may have been able to form more easily in the very early universe than they do today, according to astounding new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that ...